Monday, January 19, 2009

Yes, I am reading The Audacity Of Hope and yes, I love him more and more as each paragraph goes by. STOP JUDGING ME. Thankfully, Andrew Rawnsley is in my corner in this article from the Guardian's Comment Is Free, expressing, basically, that he is also heartily jack of "those who want to get their disillusion in first." He concludes with:

To assume that he must fail before he has even tried is to surrender to an utterly barren pessimism. Better the audacity of hope than the timidity of cynicism. And I bet his inaugural speech is going to be just great.